Specialist Operational Excellence

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Xenco Services Full time

**Specialist Operational Excellence & Technology - Reliability (Underground Mining) **Advert**

**Who we are**:
Xenco is a business that is experiencing rapid growth in Africa. We provide businesses with executive and operational level support that significantly improves productivity, efficiencies, and company profitability. We pride ourselves on our ability to develop a rapid understanding of business issues, formulate an achievable plan and execute it to deliver improvements to our clients’ bottom line.

**The opportunity**:
We are currently seeking highly motivated **Specialist Operational Excellence & Technology **to plan**, **coordinates and facilitates heavy equipment maintenance operational excellence and technology efforts by supporting the implementation of the overall mining operational excellence and technology strategy.

**About the Role / Key Responsibilities**
- Evaluate the performance of engineering, maintenance and reliability processes.
- Define process issues by taking initiative and interacting with maintenance, reliability and condition monitoring teams.
- Investigate root causes and manage the implementation of corrective actions (stability and variation management).
- Implement improvement projects and perform fault-finding analyses to determine root causes and make recommendations for corrective actions (stability management).

**Required Skills and Experience**:

- University degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or a similar field plus a Qualification in Management or Leadership
- Must have a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
- At least 5 years' experience in mining operations.
- At least 3 years' experience in Lean Management, business improvement, strategy development and deployment, project portfolio management.
- At least 2 years' experience in implementing a change program, developing a transformation strategy, etc.
- Working knowledge of workplace safety management.
- Proven ability for strategic and analytical thinking.
- Proven ability to organize work, set priorities and demonstrate great independence of judgment.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and recommendations.
- Skill in team management

We are seeking ambitious individuals who can take initiative and drive outcomes. In return, we offer competitive rates and provide opportunities for rapid growth and exposure to a diverse range of exciting projects. If you are eager to work alongside industry experts and gain valuable experience.



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